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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JANUARY 80 1939.

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AVE you ever exa- mined your fellow bus or tram travel- lers and noticed, among their other depressing quali-

ties, how many were wear-

ing glasses? I did yester day.

Three out of eight youngish men wore specteles. One out of Boven women had rimless pince, nez, One lifted a lorgnette to pay her fare. A third screwed up her eyes as she left the bus and fell off the step.

What is it all about? Are we all going blind, or turning into peering Wellsian creatures wenr- ing lanses from birth to death? I consulted several experts, all smugly bespectacled. Here is their story.

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factories, botter print and vast- ly better standard of eye treat- Rent.

The increase is not a "trus" increase. And, in a few years, scientific preventive and curative treatment may turn oven that. into a decrease. Eyesight is likely to improve.

One rather sinister factor, which demands action from the authorities is that of the people who are neeillessly ruining their sight by wearing completely un- suitable glasses. Thousands of Chinese in Hongkong ruin their eyes in this manner by buying glasses over the counter or from hawkers in the streets, without first having their eyes tested,

Eyesight changes, and it is.

your only sensible to consult oculist once a year.

In this country the number of people who wear glasses is at its cent, are

faulty. And (con- number of renders of this paper highest to-day. About 38 per tradict the experts, not me) not wearing glasses would be ad- The British optical industry, cent. of the population either all the people over 45 have eye vised to wear them if they con- once sadly myople, is now wak- wear or need to wear them. defects and need occasional or Roughly one-third of us actually permanent glassCH.

do use them at some time or other.

And this does not take into ne-

were

And that ing up. In 1931 of the spectacle sulted their oculists.

Bold here most figure is over and above those frames

foreign. But to-day frames are British. And also Britain is turning out some The statisticians have divided count the remaining children too who already know that they for ses us into three groups. In the young or too difficult to classify, need them..

Many of these who should Well that seems a fairly de- excellent new gadgets which will schoolchild group, a total of ten wear glasses do not-for one of Phone 27778/9.1 per cent, have defective sight. two reasons. Vanity or ignor. Pressing story, but it isn't really make life easier for us giglampa.

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New Order

THE GOVERNMENTS

and

peoples both of Great Britain and of the United States are

constantly rebuked by Japanese

spokesmen for their failure to "grasp the meaning of the new order in East Asin."

It seems doubtful however whether the nature and scope of Japan's continental ambitions, as formulated by her present lenders, are seriously misunder- stood in responsible quarters on either side of the Atlantic.

In this context it is perhaps the Japanese who can be more justly charged with a inck of imaginative comprehension.

it seems. Look at One of the biggest new inven- Of the people between 15 and 45

ance. Though 60 women for as bad as

countries. The United tions is that of "plastic glass"— years of age as many as 15 per every 40 men consult oculists other

about their sight, I very much States with about 120 million synthetic product made, I be- lieve, from coal tar, which is doubt whether the actual spec- population wears 45 million spec- easily moulded and worked, very unbreakable. are tacles-a slightly higher per light and almost tacle-wearing proportions the same., Women, especially centage than in Britain, France Also it is more transparent than

would young women,

the finest optical glass. rather has 16 million spectacled, Ger- grape through misty lives than many (not including Austria, odd. other Sudetenland and see through glass.

ments) has 18 million, which suggests slightly better sight or

ance. annda

I is likely to

revolutionise

Then ignora Guns Before Spectacles policy the making of lenses of every Thou- So we don't seem to be parti- sort and to reduce greatly the imagine cularly C3 in sight compared price of previously costly specta-

cles. their sight is with other places.

especially to Interesting perfect when Is our eyesight progressively really they are deteriorating? Superficial figures women, sportsmen and people seem to show it. But like me who break their frames ruining it for would lack of specta-oculista believe that it is remain every week, is the "contact lens" Recently ing much the same, but that a minute saucer-shaped bit of au-more of us are wearing glasses glass the size of a sixpence which

actually fits on to the eye-ball,

cles. the army authorities

at because more of us realise that Home announced we need them. Also-~~{ that 11.per cent. important factor-more of of a six-months' can now afford them. batch of en-

most

us

Slipped each morning beneath the eyelids it sits secure and com-

In the bad old days countless pletely invisible. over the eye and listers were thousands were unable to buy, or naturally gives a perfect field of vision. It is said to be unbreak- turned down be- replace broken, glasses.

cause of defects Some forms of eye defects able in the eye.

I have never tried these lenses in sight. Yet are. it is true, increasing. these men would not have tried Rapidity of movement, the eine as they are expensive and some- to enter had they been aware ma, excessive smoking may harm times demand many "fittings" of these defects.

the eyes. But against that we before they fit the eyeball exact- I'm sorry to do a bogey act, must set improved lighting, iy. But they should make many but probably a tenth of the total larger windows in homes and converts.

Language No

The "new order" of which FROM time immemorial, diplo- mats have spoken a language www.they speak has not been es-

own. Two thousand tablished; probably no Japanese of their would pretend that it had. Its years ago, it was Greek: the

Apostle Paul, fighting off only reality is as a conception brawling crowd, evoked from vague but ardent-in the Japan-one Asiatic Governor the sur- ese mind.

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It is the weakness of this Greek?" conception, this vision of the The Greek civilisation of Rome future, that it is somewhat declined, and the young nations parochial. It postulates (though used as their lingua franca und tongue, Latin. its sponsors occasionally protest their official that it does not) the entire sub- Queen Elizabeth, though no Ro- jugation of China for the exmanist, roundly abused one of the Ambassadors to her court in clusive benefit of Japan; and by the Roman tongue.

corollary it dismisses Europe More recently, the language of and America from the Western diplomacy was French. Secre- taries of State for Foreign Now these large desiderata Affairs, Under-Secretaries, Am-

Pan. Pacific.

at 12.00 Noon

** AMERICAN * *

One

Can Understand

"Unofficial Soviet circles point out

What effect is such phraseo- logy likely to have on the son of an Italian blacksmith, on a Geor- gian peasant, on an Austrian house-painter?

It is all to the good that these polite fictions should be blasted out of existence by the dynamite of genuine oratory. There was no language of diplomacy in Mussolini's "If I advance, follow mo; if I retreat, kill me; if I die, avenge me;" none in Hitler's "One People, one State, one Leader" still less in Stalin's un- speaking firing squad, purging treason from his union of repub- lics.

It is good that polite fiction should be replaced by-the truth. That a German should speak Ger- man and an Englishman English. are possible developments on bassadors, and even attaches proposed plan to delimit the de- his resignation of the Admiralty There is--even with interpreters paper; but to a balanced mind whose job was to send flowers to finitive clause to include the ex-to the House of Commons said: less likelihood of misunder- But if the truth is to be at 12.00 Noon it cannot appear probable that the right people and wear the port of graphite, as well as of "The Prime Minister made a standing.

be unwise for anyone to count spoken, it must be spoken open- at 12.00 Noon in practice they will come about. right clothes on the right occa-tead, pencils. This has resulted guarded statement that it would at 12.00 Noon It might be well for Japan if, in stone, all were required to do in a gratifying detente."

one thing whatever else they did To-day diplomacy is conducted on our keeping out of a war. ly. The promise of Open Diplo- laying the so far unimpressive not do: speak-even think- in through interpreters. Most diplo-That was not the language dicta-macy, made 20 years ago and dis- foundations of her "new order," French.

mats, whatever their other quall-tors understood. They talked in honoured like so many idealistic at 9.00 pm. her leaders were to remember}

About the meetings and con-fications, are not men of such a new language and such guard-pacts made since 1918, is still trusted utterances...meant nothing the greatest safeguard of a de- at 1200 Nogs at 12.00 Noon that their country, though her versations of statesmen a whole education that they can

The language. of diplomacy FEB. 16th at 6.00 p.m.destinies

are high

and her crop of French phrases grew up. themselves to speak a language to the mentality of Herr Hitler cent peace. power considerable, is neither One made a demarche. One con- not their own. Many diplomats and Signor Mussolini."

When Chamberlain spoke to landed us in the war of 1914- alone nor foremost in these two cluded not an alliance but an at the heads of nations to-day

ontente. One was relieved notjhave not only "little Latin and the House, he said that certain when Edward Grey refused to respects,

by a lightening of the tension, less Greek," but little English messages were not given to tell Prince Lichnowsky that Bri- Hitler "in case they should have tain would, certainly and definite- but a detente. One wrote, and and less French.

that y, fight on the side of France. What Fear Did

the opposite effect from

The language of polite fiction. even spoke, in the third person

which was intended." HERE is a fable from the

They have not been trained What he meant was, that the put Abyssinia into the lap of The average diplomat of the East:-

speak it; Austria into the hands An Arab in the desert met old school would repurt in some through years of experience to messages in question might send Signor Mussolini who does not. under the Pestilence. "Whither are you such fashion as this: "I have know what is meant by a the German Chancellor into a

speak it; China going?" he asked. Pestilence the honour to inform Your Ex-demarche, or a conversation. To- neurotic passion and induce him of Herr Hitler who does not answered, "I am going to Bag-cellency that I made a successful day, they are all lumped together to declare war out of nervous Achilles) heel of Japan, who demarche and conveyed to Hists "talks" conducted through rage instead of keeping the does not speak it; and now has given all, and more than all, ho Excellency, the Minister, Your interpreters! Later the two met again. Excellency's instructions. I was They do not know, the Hitlers Mr. Chamberlain's the lan: demanded less than a month ago Said the Arab, "You have not favoured with a subsequent in-and Mussolinis and Stalins, just guage of diplomacy; the lan-to Herr Hitler, who understood kept your word. You slew not torview at which we had a con-what measures are implied by guage of evasion and subtle im- only one British speech-the mo- five but fifty thousand." vorsation in which I expressed to "grave view as against "gravest plication and, this he uses to bilisation of the Navy.

"No," answered Pestilence. His Excellency Your Excellency's possible view." They are not to his own people! Frankly, it If we talk to the dictators, we loaves the man-in-the-street in must talk their language, for "I killed five thousand. Fear view that H.M. Government the language born.

they cannot speak ours. slew the rest,"

would take a grave view of the Alfred Duff Cooper, Justifying (something of a fog.

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